Tag: Love
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ZONN: Ipola …
IPOLA: Wha … it’s morning already.
ZONN: Yes.
IPOLA: You look awful.
ZONN: Not surprised. It was a long meeting. A lot was said.
IPOLA: And?
ZONN: We are your subjects.
IPOLA: Ohh. Thank you, Zonn.
ZONN: It will be for a year at a time - just like all the other tribes.
IPOLA: Of course. This … this means a great deal to me.
ZONN: I know. It means a lot to us, too.
IPOLA: I’m so sorry for the way I tried to bully you. Cha na amanh.
ZONN: It’s balanced. Cha nethron.
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ZONN: I have always loved you. From the first time I saw you. All my life. You are … everything I have ever loved, everything I ever wanted.
IPOLA:And everything that sticks in your throat … the “sand in your breechcloth,” I think you called me once.
ZONN: Well, yeah, that, too. But gods, you are … the impossible standard that no one else could ever match. Even now, after all these years … I … have never worn a chain. Because of you.
IPOLA: Oh, Zonn. Of course I know it has nothing to do with our love. Of course you need some time with your people to consider. I … there I go again, acting and talking from fear.. Sorry. So sorry. Cha na amanh.
ZONN: Cha nethron. I do know how it is. My darling one. For the first time I have something besides myself to lose. And it’s the worst time in history. I’m afraid, too. I am afraid.
IPOLA: But I did want to hear you say that you love me.
ZONN: That’s fair.
IPOLA: After twenty-five years? Not really, no.
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IPOLA: For anything else, for anyone else it wouldn’t be, Zonn, but this is you, this is me, this is for the world. Not an exaggeration! The world! It is that simple, dammit - I need to know!
ZONN: And you can’t give me one day?
IPOLA: How many days does Erogenia have? I left in the middle of a crisis …
ZONN: All I’m saying is don’t pressure me like this. Or I swear it’ll be like Mimos all over again!
IPOLA: Oh - so!
ZONN: Yes!
IPOLA: Now you bring that up? Now?! Have you been storing that hurt up for twenty-five years just to throw it in my face again? We weren’t any kind of a chain, Zonn! And you refused to wear one, so -
ZONN: I refused? You refused to have any chain but your goddam crown! It still hurt!
IPOLA: And what you did hurt me twice as much! Don’t you blame me for your sexual impulses!
ZONN: I’m not blaming you for that - but it just seems as soon as I find a little peace ...
IPOLA: Don’t you DARE turn your back on me --
ZONN: Hey - this is my tribe, not yours! Not yet, anyway!.
IPOLA: Oo! You -- you --
MENTL: We’re not … gonna ever fight like that - are we?
ZONA: Depends. Are you planning to disappear for twenty-five years ?
MENTL: No, ma’am.
ZONA: Good. Six months without you was hard enough.
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ZONA: When the time came, Kevin had me put my good foot in his hands and just “whoosh!” sent all three of us flying into the hole in the worlds!
KID1: Wow! He must be strong!
MENTL: Oh yeah. He’s … legendary in my world.
KID2: Is he as strong as Zonn?
KID1: NO-body is as strong as Zonn!
MENTL: Well, I don’t know, but he’s probably the strongest man in my world. If “man” even applies to him.
KID3: Who would win in a fight? If Zonn and him had a fight?
ZONA: Oh - I don’t …
KID2: Zonn can beat anybody!
KID3: He can lift anything! He kills the big monsters with his bare hands and stuff!
MENTL: Aren’t you forgetting something?
KID3: What?
MENTL: Well … what would they be fighting about? Zonn’s a really good guy, and so’s Kevin. I think they wouldn’t fight each other. I think they’d probably team up.
KID3: Ohh … yeah.
ZONA: I don’t know how it goes here yet, but back home we sometimes have contests and we fight for fun. But Kevin’s not an Erogenian - he’s a different sort of person. I saw him stop a fight and make it all right with everybody just by talking and calming people down. I think that shows a lot of strength, too. A different kind of strength. I think he would rather not fight at all if you gave him a choice. I think Zonn - well from what I’ve seen my father is kind of like that now, as well. He’s ...
IPOLA: “Hectoring?” Where did you even learn that word? You mean “nagging” don’t you?
ZONN: No, no, I don’t. Besides, I know you don’t like me to say the “N” word unless I’m talking about horses. But it’s just not that simple, Ipola!
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ZONN: Dragons …
IPOLA: Yes.
ZONN: Not even in my day …
IPOLA: In no one’s day, Zonn. Not for three thousand years or more. But this is still our day. Our day didn’t end when we stopped being young. Yours, mine - all of us. And it’s the reason I did one of the stupidest things I have done in a long time by leaving Erogenia and coming here.
ZONN: On the back of a giant bird. (grins) Well … I don’t know about stupid. It was pretty Erogenian.
IPOLA: Sometimes, my old love, it’s much the same thing.
ZONN: You looked damn good doing it.
IPOLA: Zonn … we need you. This … more than anything is why I had to come find you. We need your strength, which I can see you still have. We need the inspiration you provide, we need a legend on the battlefield.
ZONN: You have Zona …
IPOLA: And thank the Goddess for her and for her sister, but at this point we need everything we can get.
ZONN: You also have Mentl.
IPOLA: Yes, of course, Mentl.
ZONN: He’s a good lad. And damn, you should have seen what he did. A goddam thunderbolt from the sky ...
ZONN: Don’t be so hard on yourself. I was the one who hared off trying to be a hero. And we wound up 1500 miles from where we should have been behind the Urtt territories, and we really by rights should all be dead. Even if you hadn’t stopped looking, you might have wasted time and resources you couldn’t afford without ever finding us.
ZONN: And look at you: Ipola, you’ve made something truly great. You made sacrifices for the greater good again and again and …you triumphed as few people in history ever could. And, obviously, you didn’t really need me there to do it.
IPOLA: Says you.
ZONN: Besides - it’s all in the past, we can’t change it now. Let’s take what we have.
IPOLA: Do we have anything - really? You and I, after all this time?
ZONN: We have tonight. And that’s not nothing. For the future? Well ...
IPOLA: For that - Hrraarch, my Aburor friend will return in five days time at noon. She will land if she feels it’s safe, but only if she sees me. If she doesn’t, she will return to her people alone. That’s our agreement.
ZONN: So soon.
IPOLA: The Sun and the Moon can’t share the sky for long, I’m afraid.
ZONN: But they do, though, don’t they?
IPOLA: Yes. Yes, they do, however … briefly.
